This path breaking research on the implementation of so called best practices in governance is new in the history of administrative reforms in Independent India. The Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievance (DARPG), Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions, Government of India has decided to facilitate this research on “Best Practices in Capacity Building for Poverty Eradication” .Aware of the growing concern on how little we know about each other every finding of the research undertaken here will be disseminated to generate a dialogue amongst academic institutions, practitioners, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and stakeholders across the world. It is also a strategy to strengthen research on implementation theory which has been one of the most obstinate missing link in governance and to promote action based research in transforming lives of ordinary citizens especially those facing subsidence and invisibility under the gigantic globalization led development.

Governance Knowledge Centre (GKC) would help prevent the replication and concomitant waste of funds in poverty research programmes. The exercise to Refine, Reinvent and Restructure the GKC portal is a two step process. The first step would be a participatory academic as well as policy evaluation exercise undertaken in the field and the second step would be to put up the findings of this research on the GKC portal to generate an on line dialogue on administrative reforms and poverty eradication.
The project aims to feed efforts on inclusive governance by bridging the gap between academic research and its implementation, between theorists and practitioners to overcome an age old lacuna as well as a handicap of administrative reforms.

With the five major Reports of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission already on the DARPG website, the issue of Maintenance of GKC is not only unavoidable but a necessary condition or a prelude to implementing many of the recommendations which have been put forward in the Reports.

Senior Research Team:

Prof. Amita Singh, Project Director
Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU

Prof. Shatendra Sharma, Head, Technical Support Team
University Science Instrumentation Centre, JNU

Dr. Mondira Dutta, Chief Research Coordinator
Centre for Southcentral Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies, JNU

Government of India

Mr. Alok Ranjan, Director
Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances

Junior Research Facilitators:

Ms. Shipra Bhatia, Ms. Sylvia Yambem, Mr. Chetan B. Singai, Nazia Khan and Zahed Ul Islam

Website manager:

Feroz